Xiuxian: But It's Not a Game

Chapter 176 Conspiracy, Xuan Ting's Spiritual Light Escape Technique

At this moment, Su Yu changed the subject and said with a grin:

"Grandmaster, your grand-disciple has now accumulated a lot of cultivation experience and power, and is almost ready to condense the third immortal bone. I would like to ask your grandmaster to help me exchange for materials to condense the immortal bone."

Xuanwei Daoist raised an eyebrow:
"So fast?"

"We had some success before."

"Hmm, just a moment."

"Ok."

Su Yu obediently brewed tea. He thought that the "wait a moment" was because his grandmaster would help him exchange the tea in the sect, but he didn't expect that his master, Jin Yinian, would arrive a while later.

As soon as he entered, the grandmaster asked:
What are you doing right now?

Jin Yinian paused for a moment, then replied:

“My disciple has just gone back to his room to rest.”

"rest?"

Master Xuanwei scolded him angrily:
"You still have the mood to rest? Your disciple is still working hard on his spare time, and he has already gathered enough killing experience and cultivation to condense the third immortal bone so quickly. Your master is so old and I still have to help you take care of your disciple, while you have been busy for so long and have not even gathered enough materials to exchange for the material. You still have the mood to rest?"

"what"

"What? Didn't I tell you last time? Did you just ignore what I said?"

Jin Yinian was stunned by the scolding and said with a mournful expression:

"I can't earn that much. Big and small achievements aren't so easy to come by."

"Don't make excuses. It's because you didn't work hard enough. Your disciple has such cultivation, and he earned a great merit on his first mission. You're his master, how could you not do that?"

"I"

Jin Yinian was so frustrated he felt like vomiting blood. He looked at Su Yu with a resentful expression, while Su Yu kept her head down, eyes downcast, seemingly lost in thought.

"What are you looking at?"

Xuanwei Daoist waved his sleeve and said:

"What are you still standing here for? Why aren't you working harder?"

Jin Yinian jumped up straight and quickly cupped his hands in greeting:
"The disciple retire."

As soon as Jin Yinian left, the anger on the grandmaster's face vanished instantly, making him a completely different person. He continued speaking to Su Yu with a kind expression:
"Since you don't have enough contribution and merit to the sect right now, you can postpone the condensation of immortal bones. The cultivation points and Dao power you've accumulated can be used to improve your Dao techniques or sword skills, and these are the key points."

“The disciple’s grand-disciple knows.”

Xuanwei Daoist was very satisfied with his obedient and well-behaved nature, and then pulled him aside to talk about some precautions and suggestions for cultivation.

After chatting for a while, when Xuanwei Daoist let him leave, he mentioned one more thing:
"You don't need to participate in the small competitions last year and this year, but you must participate in the grand competition next year. Two of the Seven Suspended Masters of this lineage have reached the age of retirement. Next year's grand competition will select two from the younger disciples to be promoted to one of the new Seven Suspended Masters. You can try to make it."

“The disciple’s grand-disciple knows.”

"Well, let's go."

"I take my leave!"

Su Yu cupped his hands in greeting and left his master's cave.

Xuanwei Daoist watched him leave with a smile, and only after his figure completely disappeared did he sway back into his house with his hands behind his back.

Back at Fengyun Dao Academy, his senior brothers and sisters were all there, but his master was not. He casually asked:
"Where's the master?"

The third senior brother said:

"Master just returned from Grandmaster's place and left in a hurry."

Su Yu opened her mouth, feeling slightly guilty.

Fortunately, my senior brother didn't know what had happened and was even laughing and pulling me along to say we should celebrate.

Returning that evening, after parting ways with his senior brother, he went back to his room with a flushed face and immediately entered the Zhenhai Pearl, shouting:

"sea!"

He looked up and saw the beautiful figure waiting there. He reached out and pulled her into his arms. As soon as her delicate body was in his embrace, a cool sensation flowed into his body, and the boiling fire in his heart gradually subsided.

At this moment, Canghai, who was nestled obediently in his arms, suddenly said:

"Your curse seems to have become even more powerful."

Su Yu pulled open his shirt to examine the curse on his chest. Seeing the crimson stain growing increasingly vibrant, and recalling the increasingly shorter intervals between his inner fire eruptions these past few days, he nodded in affirmation:
"It is indeed gradually getting stronger."

"The next immortal bone I can see must be the Heavenly Might Star Bone."

Otherwise, it would be difficult to suppress the increasingly intense inner fire.

After embracing her briefly and waiting for the inner fire to completely subside, Su Yu released Cang Hai, but did not let go completely; instead, he continued to hold her in his arms.

Their eyes met, and he reached out to gently stroke her exquisitely beautiful face, which felt smooth and jade-like to the touch.

The knot of hearts connects their souls, making them of one mind and able to understand each other's thoughts with just a glance.

Without the slightest hesitation, Canghai nestled against his chest and whispered:
"We are one, and I am naturally willing!"

Su Yu cupped her flawless face in his hands and gently kissed it.

In the secluded courtyard of Xuanzhen Immortal City.

A figure silently entered the courtyard, and a middle-aged man who had been waiting inside immediately came forward and asked:
"Xi Yi, what's the matter that you're in such a hurry to see us?"

The figure pulled down his cloak, revealing Ye Xiyi's face, and said coldly:
"Uncle, do me a favor."

"You said."

"Help me cripple someone."

"???" asked the middle-aged man who bore a resemblance to Ye Xiyi.

"Who should be crippled?"

"Su Yu".

Who is Su Yu?

"Feng Yunzi Jin Yinian, who was promoted to core disciple with me in this trial."

Why do you want to cripple him?

Ye Tian asked, not quite understanding:
"If he just beat you to take first place, your uncle advises you not to be impulsive. You have a long life ahead of you, and a temporary setback doesn't mean anything. With our support, you'll be back in a few years."

"My grandmaster wanted to adopt him into the Youlong lineage to inherit his mantle!"

Ye Xiyi recalled that when he learned this news from his Uncle Zhou Yue not long ago, he was stunned, followed by shock and anger.

Although Martial Aunt Zhou Yue said that this was just her speculation based on her grandmaster's behavior during this period, there is no smoke without fire, and there must be a reason for this statement.

He cannot accept or allow this to happen.

Ye Tian remained silent for a long while before asking:
Are you sure it's true?

"It's very possible."

"Well."

Ye Tian nodded and said sternly:

"The mantle of Patriarch Youlong can only be inherited by you. Anyone who dares to take it will be crippled."

"Don't rush. Let me send someone to gather information on him first, and then we'll decide what to do."

"You should continue as usual during this period. Do not do anything unusual, and do not come to me to inquire about the development of the situation. It would be best if you took a mission and went out for a while."

"it is good."

The two then spoke privately for a short while before parting ways.

Su Yu was naturally unaware of this matter; at that moment, he was intimately cuddling with Cang Hai inside Zhenhai Pearl.

However, there is no dual cultivation, not because it is impossible, but because Canghai will not refuse, but because it is not the right time.

The primordial yin of innate beings is extraordinary and has great benefits; it would be a waste to extract it now.

Let her grow stronger first; the effect will be even stronger when she becomes stronger.

After opening their hearts to each other, the two became closer and more natural. Su Yu also spent more time with her, chatting together, building their cave dwelling together, and developing a new medicinal herb garden.

Since the creation of the world within the Zhenhai Realm using the Nine Heavens Breath Soil, the landscape of the realm has undergone a dramatic change.

Although the core is still underground in the Central Continent, and that is where she usually lives, since she moved the spiritual fields to the Central Continent, she has to spend a lot of time on them in order to take care of the five newly separated thousand-year-old Vermilion Fruit Trees and other spiritual flowers and fruits. So she built a cave dwelling in the Central Continent.

They've only built a framework for now, enough for them to live in for the time being, but they'll definitely need to expand it later.

Upon learning this, Su Yu immediately went to Xuanzhen Immortal City and spent a thousand gold coins to purchase a large amount of building materials, enough to construct a giant palace complex stretching for dozens of miles.

He spent another two thousand gold coins to purchase a large number of seeds or new shoots of spiritual flowers, herbs, and fruits, including various common spiritual ginseng, lingzhi, he shou wu, evening glories fruit trees that can be used to refine youth-preserving pills, golden sun fruits, fine wind bamboo, fairy tears mica, bright light divine leaves, star pattern divine wood, iron boat wood, and ancient and desolate woods that can be used to refine high-level flying boats and warships.

If these natural treasures are mature, the price will definitely be very high.

The high price of many rare and precious materials lies mainly in their growing environment and age; they often require high-grade spiritual lands and have grown for thousands or even tens of thousands of years.

However, if it's just seeds or sprouts, they are not only inexpensive, but also come in a wide variety.

He only bought seeds and sprouts, and soon he had collected hundreds of rare and precious materials, including several top-grade ones.

Examples include Star-Patterned Divine Tree, Heavenly Origin Fruit, Myriad Wheel Fruit, Enlightenment Immortal Lotus, and so on.

These species all have growth periods of over 10,000 years, and even within the Zhenhai Realm, they take several hundred years to mature.

He's not useful at the moment, but he has a long life ahead of him. With his strength and potential, becoming an Earth Immortal won't be a big problem. He'll have a lifespan of several thousand years, which is more than enough to harvest several times over.

Moreover, this is still under normal circumstances. When the seal on the Zhenhai Pearl is lifted in the future, the internal time flow will increase even further.

If the flow of time could be increased to 100 to 1, then a harvest could be completed in just a few decades, and that would be amazing.

So for now, don't worry about anything else, just plant it first and see what happens.

In the heart of Zhenhai Realm, Canghai was researching alchemy, while Su Yu was preparing for cultivation.

He opened the panel, his gaze sweeping over his various Taoist techniques, and ultimately decided to prioritize upgrading the Xuan Ting Treasure Scroll.

Upgrading the Xuan Ting Treasure Book from level 60 to level 70 requires 54 billion cultivation points and 4500 points of Dao cultivation, but he currently has 51 points of innate talent, which can reduce the cultivation experience requirement by 20%, that is, 43.2 billion cultivation points, a reduction of more than 1 billion cultivation points.

"Cool!"

As the mental cultivation method improved, the power of the various Taoist techniques derived from it also increased, and a method of escape was successfully developed.

Mysterious Court Spiritual Light Escape Technique (Suppressing the Sect): A flash of spiritual light, covering a thousand miles in an instant, with five levels.

First-tier attribute: Transforms into a streak of light and flies away quickly. The base speed of the escape light is 300% of the user's own Qi control flight speed. Each level increases the flight speed by 100%. Mana consumption is 300 points per second.

This escape technique's upgrade is different from other derived Daoist techniques; it doesn't upgrade along with the Qi Refining Method, but requires a separate upgrade.

After upgrading his Qi Refining Technique, Su Yu checked his experience pool and found that he still had 34.8 billion killing experience points and 9308 cultivation points remaining. He had enough cultivation points to upgrade to another ten levels, but not enough killing experience points.

Su Yu glanced at the panel again. The Xuan Ting Treasure Book had been upgraded from level seventy to level eighty. Even with a 20% reduction in innate talent, it would still require a staggering 92 billion killing experience points and 7500 cultivation points, which was not far from condensing a piece of immortal bone.

"But it's not a big problem. I'm still very young and have plenty of time to improve gradually."

Even if you don't spend money to upgrade your character, 10 billion spiritual energy experience is only 10,000 gold. Even if you don't spend money, leveling up on your own won't be much slower.

"Okay, let's go practice now."

(End of this chapter)